THURSTON, Reuben Harris

  General Notes:

A farmer in Garden City at the time of his death." In religion a free thinker; having a fertile mind, he writes essays and poems upon religious and moral subjects, discrediting the bible as a revelation, but holding to the great first cause, God, as revealed in nature only. He always advocates morality, 'and is a most genial gentleman, a man of good judgement and taste.", p455

Reuben Harris evidently traveled with his father Peter in 1813 from Vermont to Ohio at the age of about 7 or 8, grew up and married in Licking County [Granville] Ohio and moved at some point to Garden City, MN, although there is no indication of when.

Reuben was a farmer in Garden City, Minnesota when he died. Brown Thurston, in his massive 1880 work on the Thurston family, typified him thusly: "In religion a free thinker; having a fertile mind, he writes essays and poems upon religious and moral subjects, discrediting the bible as a revelation, but holding to the great first cause, God, as revealed in nature only. He always advocates morality, 'and is a most genial gentleman, a man of good judgment and taste.", p455

1840 THURSTON REUBEN H. Delaware County OH 202 Berlin Township Federal Population Schedule OH 1840 Federal Census Index OHS4a2594245 ²

  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the census in 1840 in Berlin Township, Delaware Co., OH. See notes

• He was employed. Farmer

• He appeared on the census in 1850 in Berlin Township, Delaware Co., OH. ³

Reuben married Mary Morse BROOKS, daughter of Nathan BROOKS and Sarah MORSE, on 15 Mar 1827 in Granville, Ohio.¹ (Mary Morse BROOKS was born on 12 Jun 1803 in Underhill, Vermont, died on 11 May 1876 ¹ and was buried in Garden City, Blue Earth Co., MN.)